Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Appeals Court: Wikimedia Has Standing To Sue Government

I guess the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals feels there might actually be something to Wikimedia's case against the NSA.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit that Wikimedia (Wikipedia’s parent company) started against the NSA. The previous court said that Wikimedia had no legal standing to sue the NSA because Wikimedia’s “99.9999999999% certainty” that the NSA had intercepted at least one of its trillions of internet transactions was mere “speculation.”